Adding Tasks

In TerraAmazon, a task identifies the area that a certain user will work in (Area of Interest) and the observation date that will be assigned to the created polygons.

Usually, the area of interest is based on a certain satellite grid and the observation date refers to the date in which the image was taken.

Each user must add his own task. It is possible to have more than one user working on the same area of interest and observation date, but each one will have his own task.

Go to the menu CONTROLLER → PROCESS CONTROL.


Initially, the list of tasks is empty and will remain empty until a task is added. Each user has his own list of tasks.

The area at the left of the interface shows the task list, which will grow as tasks are added during the project.

The area at the right shows the columns of the layer that contain the geographic boundaries of the area of interest selected to work in. Click on the task in the list at the left and check the columns at the right.

Add New Task: opens the following interface.


Contact an Administrator User to inform you the area of interest and the date to work in. The composition of a date associated to an area of interest is called Scenario.

Click on a scenario in the list at the left and use the area at the right of the interface to check if the area of interest is the one assigned to you by the Administrator User. If not, click no the next one and so on.

Select the Phase. Contact an Administrator User to inform the phase to be chosen.

Click on the Add button. Tasks can be added only once. After that, it cannot be removed by any other user, including Administrator Users. It becomes part of the log for the activities executed along the project.

After adding the task, close the interface and the new task will be displayed in the Process Control interface, as shown in the next figure.


Note: Phases added to the database by the Administrator User while Operator Users are connected to the database might not be immediately updated in the Add New Task interface. In that case, restart the database by going to the menu FILE → RESTART SYSTEM, or deactivate the project and activate it again.



Legend of Process Status

The icons present at the processes list show the status of the process. See their meanings below:

New processes

Started processes

Processes left open

Processes that were sent to review

Closed processes